Austere (band)
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Austere is an anonymous electronic music group specializing in ambient, dark ambient, drone, glitch-ambient, downtempo-style drum and bass and minimalist music. The group first started working together in 1998 and is based in the Pacific Northwest.
The group's work draws upon composer Steve Reich's concept of Process Music. They have worked with groups including Abstract Audio Systems, and In The Now. The have also contributed music to films, and wrote the soundtrack for The Thin Horizon, an independent film written, directed and produced by Michael Peters.
Austere's members have recorded solo works, as The Mystifying Oracle and Freq. Magnet.
[edit] Discography
- Convergence - self-released 1998, reissued by The Sound-O-Mat 2004
- Monodia self-released limited edition of 100, 1999
- fade self-released, 2000
- Curio first limited edition of 50 with gold foil, second unlimited edition, 2002
- distance (with In The Now), 2002
- Remission 2003
- evergone (with Abstract Audio Systems), 2004
- Remittance, 2004
- Eco, 2005
- faded, 2005
Most Austere releases are distributed by the specialist ambient label Hypnos Records.
